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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 3948 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to extend the provisions of that Act to cover a debt collector who is... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Prohibition on the referral of emergency individual assistance debt

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Chapter 3 of title 31, United States Code, is amended— in subchapter II, by adding at the end the following: With respect to any assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to an individual or household pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5122 et seq.), if the Secretary of the Treasury seeks to recoup any amount of such assistance because of an overpayment, the Secretary may not contract with any debt collector or other private party to collect such amounts. ; and in the table of contents for such chapter, by inserting after the item relating to section 333 the following: 334.
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